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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning enable students in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bouvet Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Everyone wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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